Go Somewhere Good

Travel

Sandisk slotRadio is sponsoring another present for you. This time I put together a travel comfort kit with some of the things I find useful on trips, which is convenient, because I’m typing this on an airplane right now. If these look familiar, it’s because lots of them are up on Mighty Goods, where I keep all my favorite stuff.

If you win, it’s like God telling you to quit your job and wait tables in Europe. Right? Right.

F1 Two-Zip Dopp

This dopp kit is my very favorite travel thing, and it looks like Flight 001 is discontinuing them. Insanity. The bag is attractive but not twee, well-made, waterproof (so exploding hair goo won’t stain your clothes), and hyper functional. The whole top opens up, so you can see everything at a glance rather than digging around in your bag. Plus, I love how the zippers are attached to the handle, so you can close the bag and throw it in your suitcase in one swoop.

Flight 001 this is madness. Bring back the two-zip dopp, I implore you.

Inside the dopp, I packed a set of nap-anywhere products:

1. Earplugs
2. Eye Shade
3. Travel Pillow

It’s the red-eye trifecta. My preferred eye-shade and neck pillow are also both from Flight 001:

F-1 Night Shade

The one I picked is red, to match your dopp kit. Much more comfy than the crappy ones you pick up at the drugstore.

Comfort Tavel Pillow

I used to travel with one of those cushy neck pillows, but it was impossible to stow conveniently, and a pain to wash. That makes for one filthy pillow, and airplane filth is the reason Purell was invented. Unfortunately, Purell just makes your pillow all sticky.

I switched to inflatable pillows, and have found that the only comfy ones are the ones with knit or fleece covers. This one is fleece, which is a bit bulkier, but more cushy — also, easy to wash.

SlotRadio

As you might expect, our sponsor threw in a Slot Radio, which is an MP3 player that comes pre-loaded with music. It’s tiny, and it’s a time-saver if you want some new music for your trip, but don’t feel like staying up until 3 a.m. downloading stuff.

Travel Candle

For the hotel room, I always like to have a travel candle with me. It dispels funk, and calms you down, but also helps you make scent memories, so the smell of that candle will always remind you of your trip. I love when that happens.

I got you a Botanicus candle in Champagne, because it smelled good. I don’t really have a brand preference when in comes to travel candles, but if you do please tell me in comments. I’m into that stuff.

A Dagoba Organic Chocolate Bar, New Moon

I have to travel with snacks or I get hangry when my blood sugar dips. Dagoba makes satisfying, organic chocolate bars. They’re rich enough that you may actually be satisfied with a few squares. Or you can have it for breakfast. I’m not judging.

Pamela Barsky Luggage Tags

These happy luggage tags have saved me from taking the wrong luggage countless times. The best one reads, “This is not your bag.” Though I keep waiting for someone with the exact same luggage to have the exact same tag.

And that’s it! All right travelers, leave a comment telling me where you would go if you could go anywhere at all, and I’ll use the random number thingie to figure out who gets the goods. I’ll announce the winner this Friday. If you win, you have to go teach English in Vietnam. That’s the deal.

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936 thoughts on “Go Somewhere Good”

  1. Hi Maggie!

    I would like to go to Northern Italy, near Switzerland, specifically to a little village I read about in a book.

    But I need a new travel kit because I am lucky enough to be going to New Zealand in August and the flight is super long! First time on such a long flight!

    Thanks for doing this giveaway!

    M

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  2. Fun!! Where is that airplane of yours headed, I wonder? MY airplane would be taking me to Portugal! Tonight!

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  3. I’d take the kiddo on a high school inspection tour. We’ve gotta start looking… armed with goodies for the trip would spur me into action!

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  5. I would go to Amsterdam and spend a few weeks sequestered on a houseboat filled with marijuana pot and house plants. Also, cats and chocolate. Mm. When are we leaving again?

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  8. My ideal plane ticket would take me to the past, five years ago, stepping off that plane in Seattle, and looking around confused trying to figure out how to reach my luggage from the terminal. Then I’m on the pay phone, dialing a crumpled cell number looking for my best friend, waiting for her voice on the line. Her walking towards me, her hands wide and free as she steps solidly forward. And the feeling that not a moment had passed since I had seen her last.

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  9. I would Love to go back to Mexico! I taught English there for, all too brief, a summer back in college and I loved every minute of it!

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  10. Vietnam is very close to where I’d go, which is Borneo! There’s no deadline on that whole go-teach-English clause, right?

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  16. If I could go ANYWHERE, I would go to Antarctica. I’d really like to see the frozen calmness and wilderness and seclusion all together. And I also want to see the penguins.

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  17. If I could go anywhere, I would charter a yacht or sailboat and I would spend a solid week at each of the islands in the Caribbean. I would snorkel and swim and think deep thoughts as I sat in an island bar each night, soaking up rum like a sponge. Can you make this happen? Pretty please?

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  18. I would take my new man who loves me in a way I was not sure existed to Madrid– to show him the city that stole my heart just before he did.

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  20. I would take my new husband to Le Cinque Terre and we would hike the path among the five villages before settling down to a five-to-seven course dinner with wine pairings.

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  22. First of all – congrats on this whole Intel thing! How freakin’ awesome is that?!?

    Second – if I could travel anywhere in the world, I would take my boyfriend to Ireland. We both love the culture (I’m part Irish, he’s not, but loves it anyways), and I have always wanted to spend a month or two there. 😀

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  23. If I could go anywhere – I would go everywhere. The Grand Canyon first. Europe next. Who knows after that? I just like to travel.

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  24. I would go back to Nicaragua in an instant! They are a beautiful and sympathetic people.

    I went as a student and have wanted to go back ever since. I have more Spanish textbooks to try and teach myself that I have books left over from (way back) college. (And I hoarde.)

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  25. If I could go anywhere in the world, I would go to Paris… I know, I know total cliche – I can’t help but fall in love with the city when I watch it in movies.

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  26. I have been fortunate enough to visit several of my dream destinations, but I am dying to go to Bora Bora and stay in one of those huts over the water.

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  28. Your little touches are so considerate. Just perfect for a world traveler. If I could go anywhere, just now, I would travel to Folegandros, Greece. Glorious Oceans on a tiny island. Heaven!

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  31. I was inspired by your top 100 list, especially now that my little girl is a year old and I’m trying to re-find myself outside of mommyhood. :^p

    One of the items on my list is to take a bike ride across Europe and since I want to start in Denmark, Denmark is the place where I’d love to go.

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  32. I would love to travel to Hawaii – I want to go snorkeling again! Of course, as long as we’re talking about dreams, I also want to go to Paris (love, gardens, gothic architecture) and Peru (Macchu Picchu!) As you can see, it’s too hard for me to pick just one!

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  33. My husband & I and our 4-yr-old son are spending 9 months in Israel for our sabbaticals as part of our life list. We intend to spend much of that time traveling to other places using Haifa as our home base. (we’re NY’ers).

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  36. If I could go anywhere–Thailand. Where am I really going next? That would be the Dickens Project Conference in Santa Cruz.

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  38. I have left the country many times, but my wife has not yet had the pleasure. She’s always wanted to see Paris, so that’s where we’d go.

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  39. I would go back to Ireland. That whole 9/11 thing kind of ruined the first trip. If I win the kit, I promise to add “teach English in Vietnam” to my life list!

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  43. swimming with humpback whales off the dominican republic…best trip ever and i can’t wait to do it again.

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  45. If I could go anywhere right now I’d go to Spain. It would be more awesome if I could teleport there to avoid the long flight, but I would deal with it for getting to go somewhere so awesome.

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  48. I would LOVE to go to India. At least a month’s worth of traveling throughout, yoga, eating, and sharing thoughts with locals.

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  49. I would go to Alaska. My sisters live there and my son can’t wait to meet his aunts. Alaska it is!

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